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Enjoyment as Enriched Experience

A Theory of Affect and Its Relation to Consciousness

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Authors:
  1. Nathaniel F. Barrett

    1. Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

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  • Provides a systematic analysis of “the problem of affect”
  • Develops a theory of affect as a basic and integral feature of consciousness
  • Combines philosophy, affective science and consciousness studies

Part of the book series: Palgrave Perspectives on Process Philosophy (PPPP)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Nathaniel F. Barrett
    Pages 1-38

  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-40
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    2. The Problem of Value in Scientific Explanation

      • Nathaniel F. Barrett
      Pages 41-60

    3. The Core Challenge

      • Nathaniel F. Barrett
      Pages 61-81

    4. Adding Pieces to the Puzzle

      • Nathaniel F. Barrett
      Pages 83-109

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 111-112
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  5. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-115
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    2. Affect as a Feeling of Harmonic Intensity

      • Nathaniel F. Barrett
      Pages 117-173

    3. Affect and Consciousness

      • Nathaniel F. Barrett
      Pages 175-226

    4. Affect and the Feeling Self

      • Nathaniel F. Barrett
      Pages 227-254

    5. The Affective Continuum

      • Nathaniel F. Barrett
      Pages 255-296

    6. Enjoyment

      • Nathaniel F. Barrett
      Pages 297-333

    7. Conclusion

      • Nathaniel F. Barrett
      Pages 335-357

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 359-364
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About this book

This book has two main tasks: (1) to call attention to the special challenges presented by our experience of affect—all varieties of pleasure and pain—and (2) to show how these challenges can be overcome by an “enrichment approach” that understands affect as the enrichment or deterioration of conscious activity as a whole. This “enrichment approach” draws from Alfred North Whitehead as well as the pragmatists John Dewey and William James, all of whom thought of affect as a fundamental aspect of experience rather than a special class of feelings. It also draws from recent scientific research that suggests that the dynamic repertoire of consciousness can change, effectively expanding and contracting our capacity to feel. Weaving these perspectives together, the book develops a theory that accounts for the peculiar phenomenology of affect and sheds new light on a diverse range of experiences, from everyday pleasures and pains to the special satisfactions of the arts and religious festivity. At the same time, it presents a fresh and distinctively affect-centered perspective on the nature of consciousness.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    Nathaniel F. Barrett

About the author

Nathaniel F. Barrett is a permanent research fellow of the Mind-Brain group at the Institute for Culture and Society, a multidisciplinary research institute housed at the University of Navarre (Pamplona, Spain). 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Enjoyment as Enriched Experience

  • Book Subtitle: A Theory of Affect and Its Relation to Consciousness

  • Authors: Nathaniel F. Barrett

  • Series Title: Palgrave Perspectives on Process Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13790-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13789-1Published: 23 February 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13792-1Published: 24 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13790-7Published: 22 February 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2524-4728

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-4736

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 364

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology, Pragmatism, Philosophy, general

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